There are two French Tennis Players called Guy Forget & Henri Laconte. TV commentators have a bit of trouble with the last one.

Trifle with those if you dare.

James.

Steve Marinak

From:Ocean Ridge, Florida, USA

Posted 9 Apr 2017 3:25 am

BO ME AIR is how I thought you would pronounce it. ..and I took French as a kid, (twice, I was so bad at it)

Doug, are you in the New England area, or Rhode Island? I believe there's quite a few French in that area for many years._________________Steve Marinak

Charlie McDonald

From:out of the blue

Posted 9 Apr 2017 5:17 am

Boomer,

Globally, dipthongs generally take on the sound of the second vowel, so I'd say 'Tai-' and 'Guy-', both long i's .
The tip-offs to me are the second syllables, '-co' and '-tone,' a company and a sound quality, Westernizations.

As language deconstructs and globalizes, cultural differences blur.
Jay Turser--a company--came to America to dub its new guitar line, and wanted to get the quality 'Tulsa' in its name,
but Japanese pronunciation gave it the 'Turser' sound. So we don't know who Guy was anymore than we do Jay.

These are more names than words, so the rules apply as loosely as they do in Beaumier.
However, I'd have said 'Bow-me-yay,' so what do I know.
I did enjoy the Japanese lesson, David, and you may be absolutely right.

Jay Turser--a company--came to America to dub its new guitar line, and wanted to get the quality 'Tulsa' in its name,
but Japanese pronunciation gave it the 'Turser' sound. So we don't know who Guy was anymore than we do Jay.